It occurs to me, by the way, that between last night's "Chuck," the second "Human Target" and tonight's "NCIS," there's been an awful lot of episodes over the last week in which characters spend most or all of the hour dealing with intrigue aboard a commercial jet liner. Fienberg tells me you still need at least three items for a trend story, even in this age of Twitter. Well, we're at three (that I know of). Did the WGA have a bad flight together or something?

My favorite thing about Tony, and really the whole show, is how secretly badass he and everyone else is. I mean, Gibbs and Ziva are obviously played up as tough customers, but Tony, McGee and even Abby have shown they are not to be messed with. It's always a fun contrast after they've been screwing around in the office for long chunks of episodes.

Michael Weatherly is the reason I watch NCIS, same reason I watched Dark Angel. DiNozzo is badass - he's the obnoxious older brother to Gibb's father and Ducky's weird uncle - but underneath the jokes you get glimpses of why he was recruited away from Baltimore Homicide.